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lbd123.bsky.social
Sunder Katwala is a national treasure. Love the guy
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I knew this would be happening, but today is the first time I've got an email from someone going 'I asked Gemini to factcheck your newsletter and it says it is wrong' (It wasn't. Gemini was wrong.) Depressing.
Labour can’t turn voters against Nigel Farage if it doesn’t attack him
If government won’t call out the dangers of the Reform leader’s policies now, when will it?
www.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
THIS! Every. Damn. Time!!! 👇
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Aug 23
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Aug 21
🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.

Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.

Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.

But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
August 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
This is a disgrace - the United States spitting on its own soldiers because they come from a minority the ruling clique holds in contempt. The people who made this decision have a special circle of hell waiting for them; liberals should fight to the bitter end to give these soldiers their due.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 7
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Marvellous piece by @kenanmalik.bsky.social:
Modern racism has become loud and proud | The Observer
The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism
observer.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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elpais.com
El presidente de Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, hja revelado que José Pepe Mujica, su padre político, está “delicado de salud y no puede moverse”
El presidente de Uruguay revela que José ‘Pepe’ Mujica está grave
El símbolo de la izquierda latinoamericana, de 89 años, pelea contra un cáncer
elpais.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
oh good god, turns out the play I'm going to see next week is two hours WITHOUT INTERVAL, how has Keir Starmer not banned this yet, what's this government even FOR
March 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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pippacrerar.bsky.social
Looks like not a single one of Reform UK's five MPs made it into the Commons for David Lammy's update on a momentous week for Ukraine.

(Two of them were present for the UQ on electric cars minutes before, but then left the chamber).
February 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Donald Trump calls Zelensky a "dictator" and suggests Ukraine may cease to exist soon.

Any European leader still believing his administration is anything but fundamentally hostile to our interests is kidding themselves
February 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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maksymeristavi.com
i would love you all to rage donate to this or any other frontline fundraising — so nobody dares to rob us of our agency, and nobody tries to decide our fates for us. Ukraine represent the future where all of this has no place anymore. where we all are entitled to dignity
maksymeristavi.com maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · Feb 18
dear Ukraine friends,
i am just 100 EUR away from closing and sending this birthday fundraiser to our 🇺🇦⚔️🏳️‍🌈 heroes. these things save actual lives and i’d love to send something before it is too late and we lose another 🦄 friend

linktr.ee/maksym.erist...
maksymeristavi.com maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · Feb 5
this is my birthday month. can you power up my fundraiser for Ukrainian queer soldiers, pretty please? my target is just $2,400 — we can easily do it by flexing our 💙💛 superpowers, right?
send.monobank.ua/jar/VSBq6Eiqs
February 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
"I’m far from the first to ask this, but – what do they think we elected them for, exactly?" On how I am losing patience with this government's failure to challenge the right.
But what’s it *for*?
This week: come on, Labour, surely you can do better than this. Also: some noteworthy nicknames for Russian monarchs; and a still extant dinosaur.
jonn.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Analysis | Democrats' failure to storm the Capitol for Kamala Harris shows just how uninspiring her candidacy was
January 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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julesbirch.bsky.social
To see Elon Musk amplifying the talking points of the British far right is depressing but not surprising. To see the British media amplifying the talking points of a clueless foreign billionaire amplifying far right talking points is something else - where is the editorial judgment?
January 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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sgfmann.bsky.social
Daily Mirror: POISON #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups:

"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK:

"If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
December 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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jonathaneilbeck.bsky.social
Yoon: This was because of middle class women of a certain age....
December 3, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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joshspero.ft.com
Interesting piece — LGBT+ people have always made their own spaces, sometimes for sex but also companionship, solidarity and liberation
December 2, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs
November 13, 2024 at 2:15 AM